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Next generation of clinician-researchers to unite at NIH forum

What

More than 270 medical, dental, and veterinary students from 60 schools will attend the ninth annual National Institutes of Health Clinical Investigator Student Trainee (CIST) Forum.

Why

The CIST Forum will convene students participating in basic, translational, and clinical research fellowships — year-long enrichment programs at academic medical centers and at the NIH — for a two-day meeting with their peers, program leaders, and established clinical and translational researchers from around the country.

Who

NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., will deliver the opening address at 8:30 a.m., and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., will give the keynote speech at 6 p.m. on Oct. 20. Other speakers include Jesse Goodman, M.D., chief scientist and deputy commissioner for science at the Food and Drug Administration; NIH principal investigators; and alumni of the various research fellowships represented at the forum.

When/Where

The forum is a two-day event, held Oct. 20, at the NIH Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) and Oct. 21, at the Clinical Center (Building 10).

The NIH Clinical Center (CC) is the clinical research hospital for the National Institutes of Health. Through clinical research, clinician-investigators translate laboratory discoveries into better treatments, therapies and interventions to improve the nation's health. For more information, visit http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH):
NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov.